This past week we discovered that LeVar Burton was turning 60 years old. At the same time we also found out that his "Star Trek: The Next Generation" character, Geordi La Forge, shares his same birthday, albeit he is not set to be born until 2335 in Somalia.

(We also ended up watching a handful of episodes of Burton's old PBS kids show "Reading Rainbow" on YouTube to celebrate.)

In a fun twist many of the "Star Trek" characters share birthdays, if not birth years, with their characters.

What better way to celebrate your birthday than being serenaded by two howling samoyeds?Imp and Rory howled a beautiful version of the Happy Birthday song, accompanied by Ginger Jenks on trumpet, who filmed the video way back in 2010 at the family home in Durango, Colorado. Credit: Ginger Jenks via Storyful

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Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the man who played him, Patrick Stewart, were both born on July 13. Stewart in 1940 and the meme-friendly captain in 2305.

So we did some digging and uncovered the birthdays of other fictional characters, like Walter White, Indiana Jones, the Simpsons clan, Mulder and Scully from "The X-Files" and even Chucky, the killer doll.